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Treading Water

Supply Chain Shaman

There are many techniques–lean, six sigma, Total Quality Management–but, the over-arching focus is on managing and reducing costs. Only 12% of public companies are making improvement during the period of 2009-2015 in both operating margin and inventory despite spending an average of 1.7%

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Rivian: Navigating Supply Chain and Operational Challenges and Embracing Growth

SCMDOJO

Introduction Founded in 2009, Rivian Automotive, Inc. is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and automotive technology company which has emerged as a prominent player in the highly competitive automotive industry. These efforts aim to streamline the assembly operation, reduce mistakes, and increase overall production efficiency.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Raymon Krishnan!

Supply Chain Game Changer

I then went on to work as a ‘shipper’, for a swiss confectionary manufacturer and then a global IT distributor. After selling the business in 2009, I went on to work for a leading US Chemical company and then a global 3PL. After selling the business in 2009, I went on to work for a leading US Chemical company and then a global 3PL.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

We built these into continuous improvement programs such as Lean Six Sigma, while also setting goals to drive breakthrough cost savings to supplement continuous improvement savings. Our approach simply breaks accountabilities and goals across the areas of Manufacturing, Logistics/Network Optimization and Ingredients/Packaging.

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Supply Chain Management:Knitting Agile with Asset Maintenance.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Industrial Manufacturing. Visualizing the benefits of various new techniques such as Just in Time, Business Process Re-engineering, Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, ISO 9001, etc., December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. Automotive.

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The Current State of Bottleneck Management and What Companies Need to Do to Improve

ThroughPut

Dating back to 2009, bottleneck elimination came in the form of chemical engineering homework sets examining flow rates, pumps, and other levers. From a more global supply chain point of view on resolving bottlenecks on the finished goods distribution and the process manufacturing side there are evident recurring problems. Bottlenecks?

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What Entrepreneur Media Wouldn’t Publish about ThroughPut: Why Industrial Operations Bottleneck Elimination is the World’s Greatest Mission

ThroughPut

Dating back to 2009, bottleneck elimination came in the form of chemical engineering homework sets examining flow rates, pumps, and other levers. From a more global supply chain point of view on resolving bottlenecks on the finished goods distribution and the process manufacturing side there are evident recurring problems. Bottlenecks?